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...Berlin the snowdrifts melted; crossings were flooded; the first flowers-tulips, daisies-went on sale in the streets. In Brussels, where the Lenten processions these days end with prayers that Belgium can keep out of the war; in Switzerland, where patches of brown earth began to fleck the foothills of the Alps, and drove the skiers higher; in Paris, where a sudden blazing sun brought tables back to cafe terraces and cheerful strolling crowds back to the Champs-Elysées-Europe last week was poised between winter and the dread spring that may launch the great offensive...
...speaking dates a year. Three weeks ago he did not let an attack of grippe keep him from engagements in St. Louis and Cleveland, nor a fever of 102° prevent him from preaching at St. Patrick's Cathedral, Manhattan, where for the tenth year he was Lenten orator...
...part of a broad Lenten program which it is conducting for the first time this year, the St. Paul's Catholic Club will sponsor a talk by the Reverend Francis I. Keean, D.D. at 8 o'clock tonight in the Winthrop House Common Room, on "Christian Marriage...
Fantastic too were the estimates of completely altering St. Louis' methods of burning fuel. Realtor Dickmann, who wants to be re-elected mayor during Passover, put his ear to the Lenten ground, telegraphed "my kindest regards" to Illinois' Governor Henry Horner and last week signed the ordinance which next winter may make St. Louis cleaner than Pittsburgh...
...mean frequent light meals, frequent meatless meals. To most Unitarians and Congregationalists Lent involves no extraordinary self-denial. In recent years churches of the middle ground-Presbyterian, Baptist and Methodist-have observed Lent with increasing mystical piety. Last week Easter Sunday brought joyous release to a Methodist minister whose Lenten fast had caused him as much belt-tightening as Catholics experience. However, Rev. William H. Alderson, supervisor of the Methodist Church on Long Island's North Shore, had curbed his appetite for economic as well as religious reasons. For 40 days Methodist Alderson, his wife and his three children...